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Our real adventure turns out to be getting ourselves and our supplies from Ta’u island across to Ofu. The ferry is broken, the interisland ferry is on Tutuila for service, the seas are rough… Only one alia captain is willing to make the journey, so we wait all day for them to arrive. Cell phones don’t really work in most places on Manu’a, so you just have to get ready and wait! We were told not before 10 am, so we get to the wharf at 10. We thought we were waiting for a big alia… I guess it is all relative. We successfully made the passage, though it seemed not possible at first. We were dragging SO slowly… Then once we headed downwind and catching surf, it was much faster.

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Sylvia adding to the wall drawings at Eseta’s. She had been asking someone to start it.. Eileen finally did!

View to Olosega from Ta’u wharf. The waves were breaking into the channel pretty impressively.

Wharf area on Ta’u

More wharf area

An alia out of the water

Down the coast of Ta’u

Luana didn’t make it to Ta’u, she went straight to Ofu, but her wine and food came along with us! (We saved it for her)

We ended up with a long wait, so I took a swim ~ mostly because my hat blew off into the water.

Kitten waiting with us.

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The view as we left Ta’u

Dr Eileen enjoying the ride

All our supplies crammed into the front of the alia

Pepa riding the stern with Ta’u behind

Off the bow of the alia

Uh oh, engine not happy.

No worries, nothing that can’t be fixed with this large screwdriver!

Dr Leianne not loving the alia ride

Pepa HATING the alia ride….

View back to Ta’u

Approaching Olosega island

Rounding Olosega with views to Ofu

Backside of Olosega

Olosega and Ofu from the north

Dr Eileen loving the ride

Village of Sili ~ was destroyed in a storm and only one house was rebuilt.